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US government takes over mortgage giants to stave off financial meltdown
By Bill Van Auken | In the biggest government intervention in the American economy since the Great Depression of the 1930s,...
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Judge says gov’t must produce waterboarding memos
A federal judge has ruled in New York that the government must either produce memos on waterboarding and other harsh interrogation...
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Corporate Whistleblowers Are Left Dangling
Sep 4, 2008 19:17
By JENNIFER LEVITZ | The Department of Labor, charged with enforcing the federal law protecting corporate whistleblowers...
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Pentagon can’t find $2.3 trillion, wasting trillions on ‘national defense’
Yes, America’s economy is a war economy. Not a “manufacturing” economy. Not an “agricultural”...
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Another inconvenient truth: Fiscal Armageddon, coming to a cinema near you
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BP shuts down Georgia pipelines
Energy giant BP says it has shut two of three pipelines that run through Georgia as a precautionary measure. A spokeswoman...
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Bin Laden Firm to Build Saudi Arabian Prisons to Replace Guantanamo Bay
Saudi Arabia prisons to replace Guantanamo bay Pakistan Daily Saudi Arabia is to build five modern prisons in the kingdom...
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BP hits a record but warns of Russia risk
BP reported the biggest-ever quarterly profit for a British company but warned of the risks of doing business in Russia...
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Inspector questions Blackwater contracts
By Joseph Neff | A high-stakes dispute that flared Monday between Blackwater and the federal government boils down to a definition:...
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Pentagon Auditors Pressured To Favor Contractors, GAO Says
By Dana Hedgpeth | Auditors at a Pentagon oversight agency were pressured by supervisors to skew their reports on major...
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U.S. House passes CIA contractor ban over veto vow
U.S. lawmakers defied a White House veto threat on Wednesday and voted to bar CIA contractors from interrogating suspected...
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Revealed: how the restaurant chains pocket your tips
Investigation by Martin Hickman, Simon Usborne and Andrew Grice | Britain’s restaurants are creaming off millions...
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The Shrinking Influence of the US Federal Reserve
Humiliation for Mr. Dollar: Ben Bernanke, the chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Bank, faces a general investigation...
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The Big Outcome of the ’60s: The Triumph of Capitalism
By Slavoj Zizek | In 1968 Paris, one of the best-known graffiti messages on the city’s walls was “Structures...
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New Global Energy Order Emerging
IPS | By bringing together the world’s major oil producers and consumers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia marked a turning point...
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Big Oil’s Big Lie
By George Monbiot | Of course, it’s not a crime, and it’s hard to see how, in a free society, it could or should become...
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Blackwater, skirting federal law, using cache of AK-47s
By Joseph Neff | The private military company Blackwater has found an unusual way to skirt federal laws that prohibit private...
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A New Kind Of Corporate Slavery
Corporations are getting rich using federal prisoners as captive labor pools. By Betty Brink | Unless she’s dying or recovering...
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An alternative to oil?
Jun 11, 2008 11:27
By Lee Waters | Oil prices could reach $200 a barrel by the end of the year, and the cost of filling up is rising nearly...
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Potential Future Hyperinflation
By Stephen Lendman – RINF | Walter “John” Williams thinks out of the box. He makes disquieting reading,...
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Profiting from Iraq’s occupation
By Harry Cohen | The British in Basra are unpopular and mostly ineffective. The last survey of Basra residents by BBC Newsnight...
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Oil: A global crisis
The Iraq War means oil costs three times more than it should, says a leading expert. How are our lives going to change as...
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Billions of Dollars Unaccounted For in Iraq
May 24, 2008 9:07
MotherJones | Want to see a signature worth $320 million? Click here. It belongs to Jack Gardner, an official with the now-defunct...
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The Culture of Capitalism
By Jonathan Rutherford | We are living through an age of transition. The new co-exists with the old. We can identify political,...
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Blackwater back to Iraq
May 12, 2008 12:19
Outrage over the killings prompted the Iraqi government to demand Blackwater’s ouster from the country. But after an...
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